Word: gomez
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...know that some clubs won’t let non-members in,” said Rebecca K. Gomez ’04. “It’s sad. Clubs are a big part of the after-hours social life...
...often had little to do until the signature screwball breaks in the songs and consequently acted as a cheerleader for the crowd, exhorting them to greater feats of whooping and bouncing. As he came forward to sing “Sound of Sounds,” the closest thing Gomez has to a make-out song and the only Gray-led song of the night, he joked, “Now you poor bastards have to listen to me sing.” Gray is possibly the least talented of the Gomez vocalists, but only in the same...
This sort of hands-on anarchy is perhaps the closest thing Gomez have to a “signature sound.” They have always self-produced their albums, a fact which Gray says has contributed to their independence of record company whims and standards. Rumor has it that the sessions for Liquid Skin saw them singing through toilet rolls as well as underwater, while the album take of “Get Miles” is the second time they ever attempted the song, after the first take had to be abandoned when a microphone fell...
Though they certainly played with the energetic Avalon crowd, Gomez didn’t play to the crowd much. They did play “Get Myself Arrested,” but also produced several oddities and little-heard B-sides. The obtuse “Steve Mckroski” was turned into a heavy-metal headbanger which Ball attacked with obvious glee. Ottewell had his star turn with a melt-in-your-mouth solo take of “Wharf Me” and a stripped-down, “X-ray” version...
...crucial question still dogs Gomez: what sort of music are you anyway? “Random,” says Ball without hesitation. “Or Shuffle. Or maybe Program. Yeah, Random, Shuffle or Program...